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Thread: Happy Jacks.

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    Default Happy Jacks.

    Do Any of you guys remember Happy Jacks trout pond in Azuza on 39 just before you enter the mountains? That place has been gone for years and had been thier forever...Oh well just add it to my memories.

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    Yup I am from Azusa, my grandma used to take me there. I don't remember it too well(I am 28) but, I have pictures of me there doing some fishing

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    Yes! I remember it well. It actually was called "Happy Jack's Fish Farm" we used to stop there after a day's fishing on the San Gabriel River or Crystal Lake. My oldest son caught his first fish there (which I mounter) way back in 1978. The old man, who I guess was Jack, actually grabbed my girlfriends *** when she walked by him. I remember her saying WTH!

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    Yep those were the days.

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    I remember that place. My Uncle took me and 3 of my friends there for my birthday one year and it ended up costing him a pretty penny!

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    I remember the place. Cool for little ones getting their first trout.


    I use to use the line ( Jokingly ) " Does the sign out front say Happy Jacks Fish Farm ? " while working at Irvine Lake . People would expect a limit of trout every time they came to the lake. As we all know , some days are better than others and you will not always catch a limit of trout at any pay lake every time you go there. People who pay to fish a lake ( like Irvine, Santa Ana River, etc. ) expect to catch fish. A real lake like Irvine can be tuff at times.

    I really liked using that line at times.

    Thanks for bringing me back to happy times.

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    I remember going to happy jacks with my grandfather. I seem to remember a magic bait in a little paper cup, knockin em dead.

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    Thats cool stuff, I think I rememder that paper cup to. Been a long time ago for me, thanks for the reply you just brought back more good memories.

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    We never went to Happy Jack's. My folks took us to the Bonita Trout Farm in Lytle Creek when we were kids. I remember that they used to provide the bait (ground chicken liver mixed with cotton?) in a little paper cup also. I havnt been up to the south fork in a long time. Im not sure if that trout pond is still there.
    Many happy times at Lytle Creek.

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    How long ago did I live there?
    Take off your shoes and pull up a chair.
    I'll tell you how it was back then
    And maybe you'll remember when.
    There was Happy Jack's Fish Farm and the Canyon Inn
    (A place to raise hell and commit your sins)...
    The Foothill Dairy and an old Mickey D's
    And where all those condos are, there used to be trees!
    The Copacetic Lounge and Mayfair Market...
    If you had an RV, you could find room to park it.
    If you wanted to party, you didn't think twice...
    You drove up the canyon to Paradise.
    Market Basket, TG&Y...
    Ole's, Sav-on, Woolworth's...oh my!
    It comes back to me now...those good ol' days
    When the skies were much cleaner and crime didn't pay.
    Where my dad taught school and I baked my first pie...
    (In '72 I graduated from Azusa High)
    Today it's not the same at all
    But I remember that place with orange groves that sprawled!
    Today it's all concrete and no reason to stay...
    The parents of my classmates long ago moved away.
    My father passed away six years ago
    The weeks and months no longer go slow...
    It's all a fast-forward like some movie I've seen
    But only repeated if I perchance dream...
    It began in the 50s for me in that place
    It's so different now, there's hardly a trace
    Of all that was there when I was a boy
    In the town of Azusa...and a chapter of my joy.

    Karl Anderson - 2011

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